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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is at Brown and loves it.  My nephew just finished first year at Chicago and will be taking a year off and applying to transfer elsewhere -- he's a bright, intellectually curious and[b] hard-working kid[/b] who has found Chicago to be filled with too many kids who are either self-consciously quirky or disgruntled b/c they didn't get into HYPS.  He likes the Core, but feels many students are engaged in intellectual combat with profs who are bent on grade deflation.  [/quote]

He sounds[b] lazy[/b][/quote]

Hmmm . . . "lazy" -- your presumption -- is the opposite of "hard-working" -- my description, based on fact.  Try to read more carefully; you'll find it helpful! :)[/quote]

Despite your description, he sounds like a kid that is really lazy.  He's a kid that finds "intellectual combat" disagreeable.  He dislikes "grade deflation."  That a kid that just does enough to get by. He's checking boxes.  He is intellectually lazy.  [/quote]

I read PP's description, and the kid doesn't sound "really lazy."  He just doesn't sound cut out for a school where a significant number of the students like to engage in an showy type of intellectual discourse or where professors cater to such students.  Transferring is a great option for someone who realizes Chicago is a bad fit. [/quote]

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